Synaprics right click

From	buck <buck@private.mil>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware, alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject	Synaprics right click
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.hardware
Date	2012-07-28 21:03 +0000
Organization	Say What?
Message-ID	<jv1k3u02uvo@news1.newsguy.com> (permalink)

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I have an HP Pavillion dv7 laptop with a Synaptics TouchPad.  Either 
the Synaptics is brain dead or I am.

There is a key to the right of the spacebar that I think is a RIGHT 
CLICK key (SPACE then ALT then RIGHT CLICK then CTRL), but it is not 
context sensitive.  By that I mean that when I use a real mouse and 
right click a taskbar icon, I get a drop down window with options such 
as "Always On Top" and "Close", but when I use what I suppose is the 
RIGHT CLICK key, a menu containing (among others) "Cut" and "Paste" 
appears no matter where the "mouse" is pointed.

I have attempted everything I find with Google to enable a two or 
three finger tap that will cause the Synaptics to perform a right 
click, but nothing works.  The "buttons:" line in Xorg.0.log contains 
only "left right".

Is there a solution, or am I going to have to use a real mouse and 
forget about the TouchPad?
--
buck

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Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-07-28 21:03 +0000
  Re: Synaprics right click Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-07-29 11:31 +0200
  Re: Synaprics right click Aaron W. Hsu <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2012-07-29 21:21 -0500
    Re: Synaprics right click Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-07-29 23:22 -0400
      Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-07-30 07:53 +0000
        Re: Synaprics right click Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2012-07-30 11:16 +0200
        Re: Synaprics right click Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2012-08-06 10:18 -0700
  Re: Synaprics right click Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2012-08-01 19:37 +0000
    Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-08-02 18:56 +0000
      Re: Synaprics right click Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> - 2012-08-06 16:12 +0000
        Re: Synaprics right click Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2012-08-06 20:44 +0000
          Re: Synaprics right click buck <buck@private.mil> - 2012-08-07 16:56 +0000
            Re: Synaprics right click Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2012-08-07 20:35 +0000

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